Activities

Key stakeholders in the UK flooding sector came together on 19 September 2017 at the launch event for the UK Flood Partnership. The body aims to become a trusted public-private collaboration for UK flood risk solutions and advisory services while also bridging the gap between an industry described by many at the event as “fragmented […]

The need for innovation in the water sector to meet societal needs is widely accepted. The recent UK Water Partnership LITSoN pilot (Linking Innovation To Societal Needs) provides an overview of innovation in UK water utilities, demonstrating benefits in terms of increased innovation alignment, better market information and opportunities for capability development, ultimately contributing to […]

The UK Water Partnership is pleased to announce the launch of a new publicly available and searchable register of testing and demonstration facilities, which will benefit water technology developers and researchers. The Tapping the Potential report identified a clear need for researchers and developers to test new water technologies and processes in facilities that represent […]

A task force has been set up led by Mark Smith of WRc to plan an international water conference in 2017. This activity is being led by members of the Commercialisation and Economic Growth delivery group.

At present there is no single portal bringing together water expertise and capability across the private and public sector focused on global market needs. The UK Water Partnership would ultimately like to provide this, so that expertise and capabilities can be easily searched under the UK Trade and Investment categories. A cross-stakeholder task force led […]

Outputs

30 January 2017 at STFC, RAL, Harwell Campus A meeting between the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and UKWP was held to build on the Urban Water Simulators workshop held in March 2016, this meeting aimed to discuss potential opportunities and the interests of participants in taking forwards the key recommendations and actions from the […]

The Future Visions for Water and Cities – A Thought Piece highlighted the potentially valuable role that simulators and demonstrators could play in developing, testing and evaluating innovative ideas that could shape water and cities. The UK Water Partnership’s Water and Cities Task Force identified urban simulators for water as a key priority. The Science & […]

A diverse audience of around 120 people from industry, government, civil society organisations and the research community attended this NERC-sponsored UK Water Partnership event, which explored recommendations made in the UKWP reports on water and farming, led by Global Food Security champion Professor Tim Benton. . The aims of the workshop were to: explore new […]

The research councils and Innovate UK invest £110m annually on multi-disciplinary water research which will benefit planners, policy-makers, businesses, community organisations. The research councils also work with the UK Water Partnership, which has brought together people across the UK water community to stimulate ideas and develop the products and services that will help solve future challenges. This publication is a snapshot of […]

Alex Nickson, Greater London Authority, speaks about the critical water challenges to London. Recorded on 30 June 2015 at Water in Future Cities – RCUK Water Showcase 2015, The Crystal, London Plenary presentation by Alex Nickson, Greater London Authority.